1. The consequence of a carelessness in sports was _____ the game was lost.

(A) it is
(B) that is
(C) that
(D) in it

2. To generate income, magazine publishers must decide ______ to increase the subcription price
or to sell advertising.
(A) when
(B) but
(C) if
(D) whether

3. People billed with debt promised that ____ will pay the money back in a few days.

(A) they are

(B) they
(C) it
(D) are they

4. The judges had an extremely hard time deciding _______ painting was the best.
(A) who
(B) who is
(C) whose
(D) whom was

5. _____ unstable and explodes as a supernova is not known.

(A) For a star to become
(B) How a star becomes
(C) A star becomes
(D) If a star becoming

6._______ was caused by breathing impure air was once a common belief.
(A) Malaria
(B) There
(C) Malaria in which
(D) That Malaria

7. The religion attempts to clarify _____ there are linkages between mankind’s relationship
and a superhuman power.
(A) than that
 (B) then
(C) which and
(D) that

8. ___________ the formation of the sun, the planets, and other stars began with the
condensation of an interstellar cloud.
(A) It accepted that
(B) Accepted that
(C) It is accepted that
(D) That accepted is

9. In the fourteenth century, _____ that glass coated with silver nitrate would turn yellow when
fired in an oven.
(A) the discovery
(B) it was discovered
(C) with the discovery
(D) if it was discovered

10. In her time, Isadora Duncan was _____ today as a liberated woman.
(A) calls what we would
(B) what we would call
(C) who calling
(D) she would call it